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After upgrading to 20.04 LTS, network now takes 2 minutes to start because of cloud-init

Posted on November 9, 2020

I recently upgraded an Ubuntu droplet from 18.04 LTS to 20.04 LTS using sudo do-release-upgrade. The system seems fine after the upgrade except for 1 thing. It now takes 2 minutes for the network to start after a boot. The console shows:

[ OK ] Reached target Network.
[    ] A start job is running for Wait for Network to be Configured (47s / no limit)

/var/log/cloud-init-output.log contains:

2020-11-09 19:38:37,068 - util.py[WARNING]: Getting data from <class 'cloudinit.sources.DataSourceDigitalOcean.DataSourceDigitalOcean'> failed

Further digging shows:

$ cloud-id none

/etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/ contains some files that are 4+ years old:

-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 1480 Nov 2 2016 93-digitalocean-cloud-config.cfg -rw-r–r-- 1 root root 95 Nov 2 2016 91-digitalocean-dpkg.cfg -rw-r–r-- 1 root root 200 Nov 2 2016 92-digitalocean-ds.cfg -rw-r–r-- 1 root root 167 Jan 14 2020 README -rw-r–r-- 1 root root 2070 Aug 26 16:58 05_logging.cfg -rw-r–r-- 1 root root 104 Nov 9 19:36 90_dpkg.cfg

Are the files in /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d supposed to be removed or updated at some point?

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